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Model specific boards => Golf mk6 => Topic started by: Aidy06 on 27 May 2010, 20:55
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Well somebodys hit my car and just left it, i'm fuming. It looks a right mess, it's the front bumper. Will a bumper specialist be able to sort this? Ive been to VW and they want £320 to repair which is scandalous. What are my other options? Anybody got any ideas??? Ta
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Yeah it does pal, idiots. I'd never dream of doing that, they've snapped the clip on the bumper I think so it won't clip back
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Thats gutting. I did see a vid on youtube that showed the insides of the front bumper may help you. (if only I could find it again).
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Found it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpdnnNw4wlc
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Horrible thing to happen. :sad: :sick:
You need it fixed but in such a way that the repair does not show. There is no cheap way out. Can we have a look at it with a bigger photograph please? Has the bumper been distorted?
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Horrible thing to happen. :sad: :sick:
You need it fixed but in such a way that the repair does not show. There is no cheap way out. Can we have a look at it with a bigger photograph please? Has the bumper been distorted?
I'll take some after, the bumper just has a few scratches on it and there's a little dink on the wing.
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I keep a Van de Graaff generator in my boot, so that when anyone so much as touches my car, they get a 20,000 volt shock up their @rse :angry:
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Arggh, feel for you, bloody annoying.
Okay, my 2p-worth....
Option 1 - There are various plastic welding kits available for automotive use - IIRC, Frosts may do one, Eastwoods would be another candidate. If you have all the fixing points, albeit snapped off, with some time and care, you may be able to effect a fix yourself. Prob worth a punt for the cost of a kit.
Option 2 - When I had a minor spill on a GSX-R600 a few years ago, I took the damaged panels to an outfit near Theale, Reading, who specialize in working with this type of plastic and repaired it...so, suggestion being, to search for a motorbike plastics repair outfit, as it's probably the same type of plastic.
Option 3 - bite the bullet and get a new bumper. If its any consolation, my mates got a BMW 335d (E96), somebody was texting/radio'ing last week and nerfed him from behind, seemingly minor damage to the plastic (cracking and deformation), but BMW have quoted over £1,100 to remedy - they want a new crash structure fitting behind the bumper! :shocked: Thankfully the other guys insurance is coughing up, but by comparison, £350 is not quite as bad.
Hope thats helpful
S
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Here ya go --->
http://www.eastwood.com/rigid-plastic-repair-kit-black.html
Can't see any UK contact info, but many years ago I did buy Eastwood stuff, and it deffo wasn't from the US - give them a shout/email them and see if it can be bought locally.
Couldn't see anything on the Frost website, but if it were me, I'd call them and see if they know of anything.
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Here ya go --->
http://www.eastwood.com/rigid-plastic-repair-kit-black.html
Don't you just love sites like that :grin: It has a link for "Enlarge product image" and the bloody thing opens up even smaller!!!! WTF :laugh:
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I know, cr4p eh?...IIRC from the good old paper catalogue I used to receive, it was basically a bar of the same plastic that is melted using a special soldering iron...pretty much soldering with plastic.
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Found it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpdnnNw4wlc
:shocked: :shocked:God , how easy is it now to steal an Rns510!!!!!. At least with the mk5 you had to take the top of the dash board out.
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Found it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpdnnNw4wlc
:shocked: :shocked:God , how easy is it now to steal an Rns510!!!!!. At least with the mk5 you had to take the top of the dash board out.
A very good point.
It seems they are being separated from the cars in large numbers on the continent.
Not forgetting the broken glass etc they will leave behind.
:shocked:
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You mentioned it had snapped a clip. I also snapped a few clips when I had a small coming together. They just plastic welded it, worked a treat.
Actually, thinking about it that might not be the best idea. Mine was on the front light cluster to hold it in, its not often if ever Ill need to take them out, front bumper on the other hand you might well at some point need to take off for whatever reason.